Anna Valentine

GRAVESIDE SERVICE: 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 17, 2015, at Stag Creek Cemetery in Comanche County. VISITATION: Family will receive friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Sunday, August 16, at the funeral home. LUNCH: Lunch for the family will be at 302 N. Elm Street in Comanche, following the funeral service. Anna Frances (Jackson) Valentine, passed away on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, in Brownwood, Texas. She was born on February 19, 1935, in Coleman, Texas, to W. W. and Velma (Barr) Jackson. Anna attended school at Sidney and Sipe Springs before graduating High School at Rising Star. She attended one year of college at Tarleton in Stephenville. Anna was baptized in the lake on her grandfather’s farm near Sipe Springs. She was united in marriage to Jack Dale Anderson whose career was with E.P.N.G., and the marriage produced two daughters, Sharon Dale (Anderson) Burnett and husband Steve of Sidney and Amy Jo (Anderson) Myers, deceased. Anna made a home for them while working for many years as an Administrative Assistant for a manufacturer’s representative and a machine shop in San Antonio before retiring back home to Comanche in 2003. Her marriage to Jim Valentine, deceased, produced one son, James D. Valentine and wife Peggy Sue of San Antonio. Other survivors include granddaughters, Nicole Blake (Burnett) Bessent and husband, Geremy of Irving, Tracy (Myers) Bess and husband Billy of Rockport; grandsons, Stephen Burnett of Windsor, Colorado, Daniel Burnett and wife Joree (Reynolds) of Lipan, Matt Myers and wife Barbara of San Antonio, and Randy Myers of Victoria; numerous great-grandchildren; sister, Janis Lain and husband James of Hamlin; brother, David Jackson of Brownwood; and several nieces and nephews. Anna Frances was a wonderful human being, full of life, and active. She loved the outdoors and was an accomplished artist, working primarily in oils. She painted many Texas landscapes and several excellent portraits. A member of the Jackson family of Comanche County pioneers, Anna continued her family’s traditions of agriculture and stewardship of the American Spirit. A descendant of Revolutionary War Captain John Jackson, Anna was proud of her membership in The Daughters of The American Revolution. She was a member of several different Baptist Church congregations throughout her years of living in different places and attended First Baptist in Comanche in her last years.